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On 14 January 2004, the President of Armenia signed the Statute of the Republic of Armenia "On Mass Information". This statute was adopted on 12 December 2003 by the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia. The new act replaces the Statute "On the Press and Other Mass Media" of 8 October 1991. The Statute regulates relations in the field of mass information, provides for guarantees for the right to freedom of speech, of accreditation of the press and of the right to refutation and reply. It also establishes the grounds for relief of a mass medium from liability. The Statute defines a mass medium...

On 23 October 2003, President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia signed the Statute "On Freedom of Information", adopted unanimously on 23 September 2003 by the National Assembly (parliament) of Armenia. The Statute regulates relations in the sphere of information, determines the powers of authorities that oversee the free provision of information to the public, as well as the procedure, methods and conditions of access to information. The Statute shall be binding on government authorities, bodies of self-government, state institutions, organisations financed from the national budget, as well as so-called...

On 9 September 2000, the President of the Republic of Armenia signed the Act on Television and Radio adopted by the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia. The Act regulates the procedures for licensing and establishment, as well as the activities of television and radio broadcasting companies. It determines the structure of the national broadcasting system, providing for the co-existence of commercial and public broadcasting companies. The State must ensure that at least one radio and one television programme of the Public Broadcasting Company is received in all the territory of Armenia (Art.4)....

On 29 April 1997 the Council of the European Union approved two bilateral Interim Agreements on trade and trade-related matters between the European Communities (EC, ECSC, Euratom) and Armenia and Georgia. The agreements will exist until the partnership and cooperation treaties between the European Communities and their Member States on the one hand and Armenia and Georgia on the other, signed on 22 April, come into force. In the Interim Agreements (Article 15 in each) both the former USSR states undertake to provide protection of the rights of intellectual, industrial and commercial property such...